Akerman: How the radical minority tail is wagging the Labor dog
Politics drives Labor, not the national interest, and we all suffer because of this short-term power grab, writes Piers Akerman.
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The rabid minority tail is wagging the Labor dog and no canine has been happier.
Whether it is the union movement, the vicious Green-Left, Palestinian migrants who support Hamas, or just run-of-the-mill fringe dwellers, the Albanese government is at their service.
Forget the views of most Australians as demonstrated by the Voice referendum, small businesses struggling to survive, pensioners and people on fixed incomes who can’t afford to turn on the airconditioning. Labor just isn’t listening.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s preferred option is to pander to minority activists.
Voters who thought they cast their ballot for a local Labor candidate are now finding that their representatives put unions first, nutty environmentalists second, and mardi gras and transsexual enthusiasts third.
Middle of the road Australians who show common sense and not-so radical opinions don’t get a look in at federal or state levels.
In the UK, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has backtracked on his promised $54 billion Green Prosperity Plan which included a government-owned green-energy power company.
Here, Energy and Climate Change minister Chris Bowen hysterically promotes a renewable Net Zero fantasy currently estimated to cost at least $1.5 trillion by the end of the decade and $7 trillion to $9 trillion by 2060.
Further, his narcissistic delusion denies any role for nuclear power, the cleanest, safest and least environmentally destructive source of energy. Hard Left ideology, not science, drives Labor.
Labor’s new IR Bill supported by hard-Left ACT Senator David Pocock, the erratic senators Lydia Thorpe and Jacqui Lambie, cripple productivity.
The biggest business in Canberra is the public service, why should Pocock or Labor worry about the nation?
With less than 10 per cent of the private sector workforce in the union movement, Labor is doing everything it can to pump up the tyres of an institution which should be irrelevant in the modern economy.
The big superannuation funds, controlled by former Labor politicians and union heavies, are in on the joke splashing cash on unions which in turn push their government to lift the rate of super contributions to go into the funds which swell Labor’s election coffers, and round and round the money goes.
The same with the manner in which Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Victorian and NSW premiers bow to the plainly genocidal Islamist thinking to appease Muslims in a handful of electorates.
Meanwhile, our “handsome boy” PM sucks up to Chinese supreme leader Xi while his Communist Party runs a legal system which takes our citizens hostage to influence our foreign policy.
George Orwell, or his first wife Eileen O’Shaughnessy (who worked for the UK Ministry of Information’s Censorship division in WWII), invented the word “doublethink” to describe the acceptance of two contradictory beliefs as a result of indoctrination.
The Left’s domination of our education system from kindergarten to university has made many Australians doublethinkers.
The LGBTQXYZ+ protesters who wave Gays for Gaza signs are a prime example of this indoctrination.
No thinking homosexual could possibly support a regime which criminalises gays and punishes them with whippings, imprisonment or summary execution by hanging, throwing them off rooftops or bashing them to death, while Israel offers them sanctuary as refugees from such torture.
Labor’s acolytes in the law may wring their hands about social justice and diversity but, to the punters, the housing shortage needs to be addressed, crime rates need action (particularly those involving teens and younger), and there are the perennial problems faced by those Aboriginal Australians who remain living in remote communities which have no economic foundation.
Faced with an awful axis of evil in China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, our government has run down our defences and is now intent on ensuring we are economically uncompetitive internationally and divided domestically.
Politics drives Labor, not the national interest, and we all suffer because of this short-term power grab.
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